Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.